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settlement-progress [2016/08/17 00:38] – created Carlos Pedrazasettlement-progress [Unknown date] (current) – external edit (Unknown date) 127.0.0.1
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 ====== Not Much Progress Toward Settlement ====== ====== Not Much Progress Toward Settlement ======
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 +//**__ __**// <wrap lo>**By [[user>cpedraza|Carlos Pedraza]]**</wrap>
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 [[CBS]] and [[Paramount Pictures]] don't appear willing to cede any kind of business arrangement that would allow //Axanar// to move forward, according to executive producer [[Alec Peters]]. [[CBS]] and [[Paramount Pictures]] don't appear willing to cede any kind of business arrangement that would allow //Axanar// to move forward, according to executive producer [[Alec Peters]].
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 [{{ :alec_peters.jpg?nolink|Axanar Producer **Alec Peters**}}] [{{ :alec_peters.jpg?nolink|Axanar Producer **Alec Peters**}}]
  
-This comment marked the first hint about a lack of progress of settlement talks between both sides in the [[copyright_infringement|copyright infringement]] [[lawsuit]] against Axanar.+This comment marked the first hint about a lack of progress in settlement talks between both sides in the [[copyright_infringement|copyright infringement]] [[lawsuit]] against Axanar.
  
 Two days later, Peters went further, hinting at a failed effort in negotiations to allow //Axanar// to be produced and would offer a financial incentive for CBS and Paramount presumably based on some kind of Axanar-related revenue stream: Two days later, Peters went further, hinting at a failed effort in negotiations to allow //Axanar// to be produced and would offer a financial incentive for CBS and Paramount presumably based on some kind of Axanar-related revenue stream:
  
-> We offered CBS Axanar for free 7 months ago, and they refused. They do not care about Axanar or what the fans want, and are not open to logical, money-making solutions. They are not working in their shareholders' best interest, nor in a way that makes any sense. This whole lawsuit was ill-advised and a bad business decision. We are just trying to give our 10,000+ donors what they want and donated for.(([[http://www.axanarproductions.com/star-trek-beyond-was-a-blast/#comment-16160|Alec Peters comment, Axanar blog]], , "Star Trek Beyond was a Blast!", 8/16/16.))+> We offered CBS //Axanar// for free 7 months ago, and they refused. They do not care about //Axanar// or what the fans want, and are not open to logical, money-making solutions. They are not working in their shareholders' best interest, nor in a way that makes any sense. This whole lawsuit was ill-advised and a bad business decision. We are just trying to give our 10,000+ donors what they want and donated for.(([[http://www.axanarproductions.com/star-trek-beyond-was-a-blast/#comment-16160|Alec Peters comment, Axanar blog]], , "Star Trek Beyond was a Blast!", 8/16/16.))
  
 Axanar has been criticized for having already created several continuing [[merchandise|revenue streams]], extensively detailed in Axanar's 2015 [[annual_report|Annual Report]]. This commercial operation is likely the "[[direct financial benefit]]" alleged by CBS and Paramount in their legal complaint. Axanar has been criticized for having already created several continuing [[merchandise|revenue streams]], extensively detailed in Axanar's 2015 [[annual_report|Annual Report]]. This commercial operation is likely the "[[direct financial benefit]]" alleged by CBS and Paramount in their legal complaint.
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 Though widely misreported as CBS and Paramount dropping the suit, that possibility was nevertheless foreclosed one business day later by Axanar's [[answer|counterclaim]] against the plaintiffs, now forced to [[plaintiffs_answer|defend themselves]] from the claim. Though widely misreported as CBS and Paramount dropping the suit, that possibility was nevertheless foreclosed one business day later by Axanar's [[answer|counterclaim]] against the plaintiffs, now forced to [[plaintiffs_answer|defend themselves]] from the claim.
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 ==== Going to Trial ==== ==== Going to Trial ====
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 <wrap lo>//See also: [[anatomy_of_the_case|Timeline of the Case]]//</wrap> <wrap lo>//See also: [[anatomy_of_the_case|Timeline of the Case]]//</wrap>
  
-Meanwhile the case continued in [[discovery]], which is due to be complete in November. {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}+Meanwhile the case continued in [[discovery]], which was due to be complete in November. {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}
  
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